Renault has announced it is taking a chainsaw to its UK operations, cutting back its dealer network by a third and removing from sale cars including the Espace and Modus…
IndyCar has released its report on Dan Wheldon’s fatal accident in the IndyCar Series finale at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway two months ago. The report concludes that Wheldon was…
With the Formula 1 season over and the spate of interesting stories subsiding, it was a relief to have David Tremayne’s Jenson Button interview land in the Motor Sport office.…
Why on earth does the Renault-soon-to-be-Lotus Grand Prix team allow its new number one driver Kimi Räikkönen to race a snowmobile? Are you as puzzled as I am? Last Saturday,…
It’s not often that you feel sorry for a Formula 1 driver. But that was the reaction here in the Motor Sport office when we heard that Daniel Ricciardo and…
Air used to be dirty in Formula 1. Nowadays it’s expectant. There’s a whiff of madness in it too. Ten years ago the sport was in the Doldrums, glum and…
Croft joins Tour Britannia route Outline route details for the eighth running of Tour Britannia have been revealed and include the first race at the Croft circuit for Britain’s only…
Over the years I have learned for the most part not to turn into a gibbering idiot in the presence of famous people. There are quite a few floating around…
Four years ago the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) trade show departed Indianapolis after many years for the warmer climes of Orlando, Florida. PRI’s move left a void which has been…
Kimi Räikkönen’s 2012 team-mate at Lotus has finally been announced. Bruno Senna, Romain Grosjean and Vitaly Petrov were all in the running, but it’s the Frenchman who has finally taken…
Has there ever been a motor sport World Championship more reliant upon one star than MotoGP is reliant upon Valentino Rossi? Some people argue – with some justification – that…
Sometimes it is not what is said but who is saying it that provides a statement with its true significance. To whit if a Lotus engineer had told me that…
It’s been a long time, six years I think, since I last attended a Tokyo Motorshow. I regretted it almost as soon as I was off the aeroplane and heading…
It’s finally been confirmed. Kimi Räikkönen will be returning to the Formula 1 grid in 2012. The Finn – who has spent two years competing in the World Rally Championship…
One of Indycar racing’s great drivers from the 1950s and early ’60s passed away last week. Jim Rathmann won the 1960 Indianapolis 500 after a fierce, race-long duel with Rodger…
I have just climbed, somewhat breathless, from the driver’s seat of the new Porsche 911, mind too full of whirling images to marshal so soon and into a space such…
